Urban Demographics

Luc Anselin and team join University of Chicago   with new  Center for Spatial Data Science  (ht  Kyle Walker ) Skydiver makes parachute-...

Imagine what research questions you could answer if you had in your personal computer the census microdata of several countries around the...

An impressive interactive map from Brandon Martin-Anderson with the US population represented by 341,817,095 dots – one for each person . ...

Counting the World is a not so new documentary produced by UNFPA. The film documents the many stages of the census process in five diff...

Nice article by The Guardian covering the new Census results in England and Wales . And here is an  animation with 100-years-changes in ...

The 2010 Brazilian Census microdata  are now available. Thanks  IBGE  ! Start your engines! Some interactive maps here . Soundtra...

2020 post update: My team and I have created  geobr , an R pacakge that is one of the easiest and fastest ways to download the shapefil...

Get Ready for the 1940 Census! Top five most common regrets of the dying Uncovering the World's First Cities The Age of Uncertainty...

(image credit:  Alberto Pomares ) " Brazil had 6,329 subnormal agglomerates in 2010 (aka Favelas), invaded properties, grotas (type o...

IBGE released a few more results of the 2010 Brazilian Census. 2010 Life Tables Interactive charts with summary figures  (HT Erivelton ...

Urban Network Analysis : A Toolbox for ArcGIS 10 (via @jmichaelbatty ) G-Econ  -  Geographically based Economic data  (via devecondata ) ...

IBGE released a few more results of the 2010 Brazilian Census by census tract! You can download the census tract shapefiles , some prelimin...

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE ) released a few more results of the 2010 Brazilian Census. At their website, yo...

Post : On sputtering integration in Toronto (by Demography Matters ) Demographic Buffet : explore data from the Census Bureau's Amer...

This 4-minute video shows Luiz de Oliveira (from IBGE ) talking about the preliminary results of the 2010 Brazilian Census (Population growt...

"...I have five dependents: one President, one Senator, two Deputies and a mangy dog." (By Cerino )